Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the Interim City Manager to Execute a Contract with Halff Associates, Inc., for Engineering Design Services for the Alignment Study of Laud Howell Parkway, and Any Necessary Supplemental Agreements
Summary
MEETING DATE: January 5, 2016
DEPARTMENT: Development Services / Engineering
CONTACT: Gary Graham, PE, PTOE, CIP and Transportation Engineering Manager
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
• Approval of the Resolution
ITEM SUMMARY:
• This Resolution authorizes a contract with Halff Associates, Inc. (Halff), to provide consulting engineering services for an alignment study of Laud Howell Parkway for an amount not to exceed $225,000.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
• In 2009, the City Council approved an alignment for Laud Howell Parkway from US 75 to FM 1461/Lake Forest Drive.
• Over the past six years, the City has developed a sector plan for the northwest sector and property ownership along the approved alignment has changed.
• In an effort to provide the most appropriate location for this principal arterial with regard to development within the northwest sector as well as crossing the Honey Creek flood plain, a comprehensive review of alignment alternatives is needed.
• The alignment study will evaluate three possible alignments for Laud Howell Parkway from Trinity Falls Parkway to FM1461/Lake Forest Drive. The length of the roadway is approximately 3.5 miles.
• The alignment study will evaluate each of the proposed alignments using a decision matrix. This includes project costs, impacts to property owners along the corridor, environmental impacts, and maximizing the land use in the area.
• Laud Howell Parkway will require the crossing of Honey Creek. The Northwest Sector Study calls for a gateway structure to be developed at this crossing. The study will prepare multiple concepts for the gateway structure.
• Halff submitted a proposal for the alignment study of the new roadway in the amount of $204,000. The estimated cost of the proposed roadway is $30,000,000.
• Halff was selected for this project based on their experience with similar projects and their performance on other City of McKinney projects.
• Halff submitted a response to RFQ 15-38 for Roadway Design. They were one of ten firms shortlisted by City Council on October 20, 2015.
• The alignment study for this project is anticipated to take three months to complete. Design of the project will begin after an approved alignment has been selected by the Council. A supplemental agreement will be negotiated and executed at that time.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY:
• This Resolution authorizes a design contract and any necessary supplemental agreements with Halff Associates, Inc., for an amount not to exceed $225,000.
• The eastern portion of the project (from the current western terminus to Honey Creek) is included in the 5-year Capital Improvements Program in the amount of $19,500,000, of which $1,890,456 has already been funded by FY2015 bonds.
• It is anticipated that the un-programmed remainder of the project will be funded through development of adjacent properties along the arterial.
• With the approval of this item, $1,665,000 will remain in project ST4331.
BOARD OR COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION:
• N/A